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    Pains in the neck  Nov 22, 2009
    "Shadow of the Vampire"(2000) is a tongue-in-cheek account of the shooting of Murnau's "Nosferatu," with Willem Dafoe as Scheck -- who, the film asserts, was a real vampire -- and John Malkovich as the filmmaker ... E. Elias Merhige's "Shadow of the Vampire" (2000) is a tongue-in-cheek account of the shooting of Murnau's "Nosferatu," with Willem Dafoe as Scheck -- who, the film asserts, was a real vampire -- and John Malkovich as the filmmaker. (New York Post -- Entertainment)

    Surviving madness, mutilation and a mauling  Nov 21, 2009
    There were even boos when the director and his stars, Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe, first faced the media in Cannes. With Antichrist I was prepared,'' says Gainsbourg in a light girlish voice. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)

    Weekend Guide: Theater  Nov 13, 2009
    ": ***; Winter Garden Theatre, 1634 Broadway; 212-239-6200. "MARY POPPINS": **** New Amsterdam Theatre, 214 W. 42nd St.; 212-307- 4747. "NEXT TO NORMAL": ** Booth Theatre, 222 W. 45th St.; 212-239-6200. "THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA": **** Majestic Theatre, 247 W. 44th St.; 212-239-6200. "ROCK OF AGES": **; Brooks Atkinson Theatre, 256 W. 47th St.; 212-307-4100. "SHREK: THE MUSICAL": *** Broadway Theatre, Broadway at 53rd Street; 212-239-6200. Closes Jan. 3. "SOUTH PACIFIC": **** Vivian Beaumont... (New York Post -- Entertainment)

    * OTHER RELEASES  Nov 13, 2009
    As a married couple (Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) make love, their child plummets to his death. Then, as they retire to the countryside for therapy, the pair descend into psychological, physical and sexual violence amid surreal images and a doom-laden atmosphere. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    Hilton Als: Richard Foreman puts language onstage.  Nov 10, 2009
    Elina Lwensohn, Willem Dafoe, and Alenka Kraigher in Idiot Savant ... They are his superego, the self-conscious meanies who want to control the Idiot Savant (Willem Dafoe, in a great, expansive performance) and steer him away from his obsession with the only thing he can do: talk and think about language. (New Yorker)

    Fantastic Mr. Fox is mighty fine family fun  Nov 10, 2009
    Willem Dafoe provides menace as a rat guarding the poultry, while Michael Gambon lends sonorous voice to the main heavy, Farmer Bean (the farmers all have British accents, the animals American; since Clooney was cast first, Anderson decided to give the other creatures American accents for consistency). These animals basically are humans in fur costumes, walking upright and relating to one another in neighborly isolationism, each family and species caught up in their private concerns. (MSNBC -- Movies)

    Movie review: Clooney's 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' is mighty fine, if not quite fantastic  Nov 10, 2009
    DAVID GERMAIN AP Movie Writer. 4:01 PM EST, November 9, 2009. (FOX61, CT)

    Grief, cancer, Nietzsche and Santa  Nov 6, 2009
    " Yeah, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking: ZOMG! This is what Roddenberry's atheist-Apollonian vision of the future has come to! Unemployed dinner-theater actors in Kirk and Spock drag and plastic tricorders, doing a laser show for the kiddies! At Waldameer WaterWorld in Erie, Pa.! It will bear the same relationship to any actual "Star Trek" incarnation as that teeny-tiny Stonehenge in "Spinal Tap" bears to seeing Led Zeppelin play live in 1973! And you're absolutely right. OK, OK,... (Salon)

    Do 10 Best-Picture Nominees = Dull Oscar?  Nov 1, 2009
    "I think it dilutes the exclusivity of it," says Willem Dafoe, a two-time acting nominee. "You know, some years there might not be that many movies that deserve it. I just worry it lowers the bar a little bit.". (ABC News)

    The gang shoots straighter in ‘The Boondock Saints II’  Oct 30, 2009
    A recap: In the first Boondock Saints, moronic but civic-minded Irish American twin brothers Connor (Sean Patrick Flanery) and Murphy (Norman Reedus) MacManus waged holy war on Boston s Italian gangsters with the undercover help of a gay FBI agent (Willem Dafoe) and a hit man who turned out to be the twins long-lost father (Billy Connolly). Were the MacManuses saints or sinners. (Boston Globe)

    Boondock Saints makes unwelcome return  Oct 29, 2009
    Like its new sequel, its a terrible movie (though Willem Dafoe as a gay federal investigator does liven things up in the original). But for all its warts, Boondock Saints does have the hallmarks of a film made by an actual person an increasingly rare sight in the slick, corporate-made blockbusters of todays Hollywood. (MSNBC -- Movies)

    Paranormal Activity slays Saw  Oct 26, 2009
    The movie stars Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a couple whose relationship devolves into torture and self-mutilation after the death of their child. Click for related content. (MSNBC -- News)

    'Saints' march again  Oct 25, 2009
    He eventually managed to get the movie made (without Weinstein) and even signed Willem Dafoe, who turned in a histrionic but mesmerizing performance as a detective hunting down the brothers ... He eventually managed to get the movie made (without Weinstein) and even signed Willem Dafoe, who turned in a histrionic but mesmerizing performance as a detective hunting down the brothers. (New York Post -- Entertainment)

    Review: 'Antichrist' an atrocity  Oct 25, 2009
    Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourgh star in Lars von Trier's "Antichrist." STORY HIGHLIGHTS ... Lars von Trier film stars Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourgh as troubled couple ... She's hospitalized and sedated for days and weeks before her husband (Willem Dafoe), a therapist, insists she return home. (CNN)

    Troy Duffy revamps his approach, reunites his cast to make ‘The Boondock Saints II’  Oct 25, 2009
    While there was no substantial female part in the first movie, in the sequel Julie Benz ( Dexter ) takes over from Willem Dafoe as the FBI agent assigned to the Boondock Saints case. No worries: there is no icky romance. (Boston Globe)

    Movie capsule reviews  Oct 24, 2009
    It s a violently psychosexual drama about an unnamed couple (Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) working out their grief over their child s death and plunging into an increasingly primeval struggle. Maddening, misogynistic, ridiculous, powerful - not for the faint of heart. (Boston Globe)

    Is It Worth Sitting Though Lars von Trier's Antichrist?  Oct 24, 2009
    Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe in AntichristLars von Trier freely admits in interviews that he makes the same film over and over: a huis clos melodrama in which a passive, vulnerable, often mentally unstable woman is gradually driven crazy, and sometimes killed, by the gaslighting of a sadistic man ... The film opens with a dialogue-free preface, shot in black and white and set to the sublime Handel aria, "." As water beads on a glass shower door, a man and a woman, identified in the... (Slate)

    Review: 'Vampire's Assistant' Freaky Fun  Oct 24, 2009
    "The Vampire's Assistant" is filled with great characters: Willem Dafoe wonderfully channels the legendary Vincent Price for a couple of scenes as the vampire's longtime friend. Michael Cerveris (television's "Fringe") is incredibly creepy as the main villain, but the pure-evil factor is amped up even more by one of his henchmen, played by Ray Stevenson from the HBO series "Rome.". (KFOXTV.com, TX)

    Is Lars von Trier a Misogynist?  Oct 23, 2009
    Of the many festival awards and critics' prizes conferred on the films of Danish provocateur Lars von Trier, one of the oddest, and, to some minds, the most deserved, came earlier this year, when the Ecumenical Jury at Cannesthe same festival that gave von Trier's its highest honor, the Palme d'Or, in 2000handed his latest effort an ad-hoc prize for "most misogynist movie." In Antichrist (opening tomorrow in select theaters), a couple known as She and He (Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem... (Slate)

    'Antichrist' shocks and awes  Oct 23, 2009
    Then there are the brave performances by Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg (she won Cannes' best-actress laurel) ... Then there are the brave performances by Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg (she won Cannes' best-actress laurel). (New York Post -- Entertainment)

    ‘Antichrist’: A primal scream from deep in the woods  Oct 23, 2009
    Charlotte Gainsbourg (above and below) and Willem Dafoe are grieving parents who plunge into darkness after their child s death in Lars von Trier s Antichrist ... In the first chapter, titled Grief, He (Willem Dafoe) and She (Charlotte Gainsbourg) relocate to a cabin in the woods to work through their sorrow ... Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe. (Boston Globe)

    ‘Cirque du Freak’ a pale version of vampire tale  Oct 23, 2009
    The supporting cast runs wide and deep, from Jane Krakowski ( 30 Rock ) as a limb-regenerating sideshow vixen to Willem Dafoe as a vampire dandy ... Starring: Chris Massoglia, John C. Reilly, Josh Hutcherson, Michael Cerveris, Ray Stevenson, Ken Watanabe, Willem Dafoe, Jessica Carlson. (Boston Globe)

    'Cirque du Freak'  Oct 22, 2009
    You have a high school film crossed with a vampire film crossed with a mutant film crossed with Willem Dafoe cameos. "Cirque du Freak" races so fast (sorry, "flits") that no one has any motive except the oft-repeated "Matrix"-esque explanation that "it is written." The supernatural (which even includes a cannibalistic Jane Krakowski in what feels like a "30 Rock" sketch) and its accompanying history of half-vampires and vampaneze never establishes itself as anything but ridiculous. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)

    Vampires Assistant juggles chills, chuckles  Oct 22, 2009
    Starring: Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly, Frankie Faison, Willem Dafoe Director: Chris Weitz Run time: 1 hour, 48 minutesMPAA rating: PG-13 ... Weitz has cast the film well Reilly and Hayek stand out, but second bananas like Frankie Faison and Willem Dafoe also have their moments except for one crucial misstep: Chris Massoglia never makes Darren a particularly interesting character, and hes outshone by everyone, especially Hutcherson, who would have been a much better choice for the... (MSNBC -- Movies)

    Daily guide to television and radio  Oct 22, 2009
    Willem Dafoe; Tracy Morgan. Steve Wilkos Show at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Ch. (Boston Globe)

    DVDs you should have seen -- but didn't  Oct 22, 2009
    Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe in "Antichrist." ... They emerge from von Trier's original desire to make something close to a conventional horror film -- you can see traces of "The Shining" and "Rosemary's Baby" in "Antichrist" -- and they're only superficial or symbolic representations of the real violence between the unnamed central couple, played by Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg. (Salon)

    In eXistenZ, Reality is Paused  Oct 21, 2009
    As common as an ear piercing- bio-ports can be installed at the local mall- Allegra leads Ted to a rural gas station where Gas, played by Willem Dafoe (Platoon, The English Patient) supplements his income as a black market bio-port installer. With the possibility of reward money from the Realists looming, Gas intentionally botches Ted s installation, damaging "eXistenZ" even more after Allegra plugs it in to Ted s faulty bio-port. (Suite101.com)

    Pray for deliverance from Antichrist  Oct 21, 2009
    IFC FilmsWillem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg star as a couple who try to work out their problems in the woods in "Antichrist." ... Starring: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte GainsbourgDirector: Lars von Trier Run time: 1 hour, 44 minutesMPAA rating: Not rated ... Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg star as a couple whose young child accidentally crawls out the window while the parents are making love. (MSNBC -- Movies)

    What's the beelze-hubbub?  Oct 19, 2009
    The film, out Friday, finds a couple (Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) grieving for their dead son ... The film, out Friday, finds a couple (Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) grieving for their dead son ... Rex USA Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg star in Antichrist. (New York Post -- Entertainment)

    Willem Dafoe  Oct 19, 2009
    By Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY. MORE DARKNESS AHEAD FOR DAFOE. (USA Today)

    Best bets: Swank hopes to soar with Amelia  Oct 19, 2009
    Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg star in Lars Von Triers film about a grieving couple who hopes to recover from the loss of their child by retreating to a cabin in the woods. But nature doesnt exactly cure their broken hearts instead it fuels their guilt and rage. (MSNBC -- News)

    Trouble in Eden  Oct 19, 2009
    Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe in Lars von Trier s new movie ... An unnamed man, listed in the credits only as He (Willem Dafoe), and his wife, otherwise known as She (Charlotte Gainsbourg), are in the bathroom of their family home, busy doing It. (New Yorker)

    Surviving ‘Antichrist’: How Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe played their grueling roles  Oct 18, 2009
    Surviving Antichrist : How Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe played their grueling roles - The Boston Globe ... Stars Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe on how they survived Antichrist ... Von Trier tried (barely) to explain himself in Cannes, and the press conference was so raucous that the film s stars, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe, didn t get a word in. (Boston Globe)

    18 1/2 Philadelphia Film Festival -...  Oct 17, 2009
    A man (Willem Dafoe) and his wife (Charlotte Gainsbourg) hole up in the woods to ward off grief, and plot-wise, that's really all you should know going in. Because if you do have the cinematic fortitude to withstand Antichrist, better to go in blind and come out, well, fully experienced. (Suite101.com)

    Clooney, Streep Head To London  Oct 15, 2009
    Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, Michael Gambon and musician Jarvis Cocker also provide voices for the playfully lo-fi feature, which brings the hipster sensibility of Anderson's Rushmore and Royal Tenenbaums to Dahl's children's classic. Although the film takes liberties with Dahl's story -- giving Mr. Fox additional neighbors and family members -- the filmmakers had the blessing of Dahl's widow Felicity. (CBS News -- Entertainment)

    Puppet masters  Oct 14, 2009
    George Clooney and Meryl Streep provide the voices of Mr and Mrs Fox, and the cast includes by Bill Murray as Badger, Jason Schwartzman as Ash, Owen Wilson as Coach Skip and Willem Dafoe as Rat. Even former Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker pops up as a human character called Petey. (BBC News -- Entertainment)

    Tony Award Winner Michael Cerveris Steps Out for Night of a Thousand Freaks  Oct 7, 2009
    After the sneak peak of the new fantasy-adventure starring John C. Reilly, Willem Dafoe and Salma Hayek, a special celebration will be held at Tipitina's Uptown, open to guests of the screening and the general public ... The film will be released on October 23 and features a stellar cast starring John C. Reilly, Ken Watanabe, Josh Hutcherson, Chris Massoglia, Ray Stevenson, Patrick Fugit, with Willem Dafoe and Salma Hayek. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    Where the wonder goes  Oct 4, 2009
    Against the funky stop-motion animation is the high wattage of the voice cast: George Clooney and Meryl Streep as Mr. and Mrs. Fox, Bill Murray as a badger, Willem Dafoe as a rat. Fox is, in other words, part of a new hipster kiddie wave, pioneered by Burton and his occasional collaborator Selick. (Boston Globe)

    Fest of the world  Sep 24, 2009
    Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg headline as a grief-stricken couple who retreat to a cabin in the woods ... Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg headline as a grief-stricken couple who retreat to a cabin in the woods. (New York Post -- Entertainment)

    Post First Comment  Sep 15, 2009
    Jimmy's Trailer Park - The Mix. University of South Carolina Since 1908. (Gamecock Online, SC)

    Jimmy's Trailer Park  Sep 15, 2009
    University of South Carolina Since 1908. Up in the Air,' 'Antichrist,' gain attention at festivals, stand out among upcoming fall films. (Gamecock Online, SC)

    Must-see movies: We're still looking for blue skies through those falling leaves  Sep 15, 2009
    Lars Von Trier's psychotic variation on "Couples Retreat," a true, lacerating original, in which Charlotte Gainsbourg (who won, and deserved, the best actress award at Cannes) goes into the woods and up a tree with husband Willem Dafoe. Beware. (Herald Online, SC -- Lifestyles)

    Clooney is the buzz, not any blockbusters, at Toronto Film Festival  Sep 14, 2009
    This is a festival with a major movie in which Charlotte Gainsbourg pounds Willem Dafoe below the belt ( Antichrist ) and another, less major one in which kids dressed as old people pound themselves into inanimate objects ( Trash Humpers ). But all anyone can talk about is George Clooney. (Boston Globe)

    A look at this fall’s movies  Sep 13, 2009
    Lars von Trier ( Breaking the Waves, Dogville ) directs Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a couple who lose a child ... George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Owen Wilson, Willem Dafoe, and Bill Murray supply the voices. (Boston Globe)

    Fall Movie Preview: Studios save best films for fall  Sep 11, 2009
    Cast includes, no joke, George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Anderson, Bill Murray, Anjelica Huston and Willem Dafoe. Dang. (Florida Today)

    Fox rocks flicks fest  Sep 11, 2009
    In von Trier's film, Willem Dafoe plays a psychotherapist who takes his wife (Charlotte Gainsbourg) to a cabin in the woods to get over the death of their toddler ... In von Trier's film, Willem Dafoe plays a psychotherapist who takes his wife (Charlotte Gainsbourg) to a cabin in the woods to get over the death of their toddler. (New York Post -- Entertainment)

    Werner Herzog's 'My Son, My Son' based a real life Greek tragedy of actor killing mother  Sep 7, 2009
    The movie, also starring Willem Dafoe as a homicide detective, was shot on location in San Diego, California, where the real-life murder took place, as well as in Peru, the site of Herzog's 1982 film "Fitzcarraldo" and where Brad goes on a fateful whitewater rafting trip, and in Calgary, Canada, and western China. "The original plan was to go to northern Pakistan, which was prohibited because you cannot show up in these volatile areas with an American movie star," Herzog said. (FOX61, CT)

    Norman's Mark: One Star (1)  Sep 6, 2009
    The mind boggles at the thought of Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Owen Wilson, Anjelica Huston and Willem Dafoe agreeing to be in this failure. I am further mystified at how anyone could have gotten 1. (Desert Entertainer, CA)

    'The Fantastic Mr. Fox': Jason Schwartzman's 'Favorite' Wes Anderson Film  Aug 26, 2009
    Now the star has united another massive cast including Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Willem Dafoe. Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman although you won't actually be seeing any of them. (VHI.com -- Music News)

    20 actors who know the meaning of range  Aug 23, 2009
    Local Search Site Search. THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING. (Boston Globe)

    THE 'ANTICHRIST' COMETH  Aug 17, 2009
    "Antichrist" stars Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe as a grieving couple who retreat to a cabin in the woods. The film features, in case you haven't heard, bloody masturbation, male and female castration, physical torture and other family fun. (New York Post -- Entertainment)

    ‘Streets of Fire’ at the Brattle Theatre  Aug 17, 2009
    Rick Moranis, and Willem Dafoe. A hired gun goes home and finds that his girlfriend has been kidnapped by a biker gang. (Boston Globe)

    Looking for Charlotte  Aug 4, 2009
    Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe play a couple whose relationship is put under terrible pressure following the death of their child. Its visceral scenes of sex and mutilation provoked furious debate at Cannes. (The Age, Australia)

    Antichrist Director Lars von Trier  Jul 29, 2009
    Qector Lars Von Trier on his film Antichrist - TIME. " She was very nice to me. In one scene the female character saws through her husband's leg, and in another the male character ejaculates blood. Is this the darkest film you've ever made? Yeah, it could be. Pause. Yeah, yeah. Probably. What am I going to do now? I have no idea. The script calls for Gainsbourg to simulate cutting off her own clitoris. How did you make her feel comfortable with that? I don't think she was uncomfortable with it.... (Time.com)

    Mr Fox film to premiere in London  Jul 28, 2009
    Clooney and Streep provide the voices of Mr and Mrs Fox, with additional voices provided by Bill Murray as Badger, Owen Wilson as Coach Skip, and Willem Dafoe as Rat. Anderson - who also directed The Royal Tenenbaums and The Darjeeling Limited - said: "Fantastic Mr Fox is a British film, based on a Roald Dahl book, set in the UK, produced in the UK, and so I am especially pleased to have been invited to the opening night movie of this year's London Film Festival.". (BBC News -- UK)

    'American Idol recap: Take it! girl Alexis Cohen returns with makeover  Jul 28, 2009
    (Simon said she looked like Willem Dafoe in "Spider-Man" but I saw more Amy Madigan from "Field of Dreams."). Her audition went smoothly enough, even for a pass, but after the door closed she unleashed the *bleep* monster and its single-digit salute. (Seacoast New Hampshire)

    Antichrists Von Trier welcomes outrage  Jul 21, 2009
    Starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe as a couple who struggle to cope with the loss of their young son, the psychological horror story drew gasps, groans, jeers and just a few cheers when it was screened at the annual cinema showcase. Explicit scenes of love-making, graphic violence and sexual self-mutilation, not to mention a talking fox, made Antichrist one of the most talked-about films at the festival for years. (MSNBC -- News)

    Grotesque sex scenes and excruciating violence...  Jul 21, 2009
    Excruciating violence: The sexually explicit Antichrist, which stars Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg, was heavily subsidised by the Danish Film Institute ... Willem Dafoe, meanwhile, who plays the father, is evidently proud of his work in Antichrist too ... Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg in one of the film's many sex scenes. (The Drudge Report)

    'Cirque du Freak' now 'Vampire's Assistant'  Jul 19, 2009
    It stars Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly, Willem Dafoe, Ken Watanabe and Josh Hutcherson in a story about a boy who visits a freak show and becomes a vampire. . (Nola.com -- Sports)

    Celebrity birthdays for the week of July 19-25  Jul 16, 2009
    Quinn, Medicine Woman") is 81. Actress Louise Fletcher is 75. Singer Chuck Jackson is 72. Actor Terence Stamp is 71. Game show host Alex Trebek is 69. Singer George Clinton is 68. Singer-actor Bobby Sherman is 66. Writer-director Paul Schrader is 63. Singer Don Henley is 62. Actor Danny Glover is 62. Actor-comedian-director Albert Brooks is 62. Composer Alan Menken ("Little Mermaid,""Little Shop of Horrors") is 60. Musician Al Di Meola is 55. Actor Willem Dafoe is 54. Singer Keith Sweat is 48.... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)

    Tarantino to attend MIFF  Jul 7, 2009
    It will also be showing Lars von Trier's controversial Antichrist, which stars Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg. The Classification Board has asked to see the film. (The Age, Australia)

    Cumming joins Spider-Man musical  Jun 30, 2009
    The 44-year-old will take on the role of Norman Osborn, also known as the villainous Green Goblin, played by Willem Dafoe in the 2002 film. The Wrestler star Evan Rachel Wood has also signed on to play Peter Parker's girlfriend, Mary Jane Watson. (BBC News -- Entertainment)

    Kathryn Bigelow filmography  Jun 28, 2009
    The Loveless (1982) Bigelow s feature debut was a low-budget but fabulously moody biker flick - The Wild One as existential fetish art, starring a hot young Willem Dafoe. Near Dark (1987) One of the great lost vampire movies, about a tribe of redneck bloodsuckers roaming the American Southwest in a van. (Boston Globe)

    100 Percent Pure Adrenaline  Jun 26, 2009
    She cast Willem Dafoe in his first credited screen role (as a blank-faced biker in , 1982). Two decades before , she made an irresistibly overwrought teen vampire romance (, 1987). (Slate)

    Isabel rings the changes  Jun 24, 2009
    As well as The Pacific, Lucas has starred in vampire thriller Daybreakers alongside Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe, Australian romance The Waiting City and US thriller Girl with a Gun, co-starring Christopher Walken. While Transformers is her biggest project to date by some distance, Lucas concedes that it might seem at odds with her high-profile environmentalist/hippie image. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)

    Cannes Antichrist shocker heading to Melbourne  Jun 16, 2009
    Antichrist, starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg, was one of the talking points at Cannes, where the gothic thriller about love and madness caused some audience members to faint and others to walk out of the screening. They are among a slate of films added to the festival line-up, which MIFF executive director Richard Moore says will live up to the 2009 catchphrase, "everyone's a critic". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)

    Streets of Fire HD-DVD Review  Jun 3, 2009
    She s kidnapped by a motorcycle gang know as the Bombers, led by Raven (a young Willem Dafoe). Ellen s weasely boyfriend/manager Fish (Rick Moranis) isn t much help, and doesn t seem too interested in getting her back. (Suite101.com)

    Cannes: Winners/Losers  May 28, 2009
    Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg give their all; she totally deserved the best actress prize. Any student of von Trier will want to see the movie. (Variety)

    Gainsbourg wins actress prize at Cannes fest  May 27, 2009
    Gainsbourg delivers a terrifying performance as a psychotic woman torturing her husband (Willem Dafoe) and mutilating herself during a trip to the woods intended as a healing sojourn. The best actor prize went to Christoph Waltz for Quentin Tarantino's World War II epic "Inglourious Bastards.". (Hanford Sentinal, CA)

    The White Ribbon takes top prize at Cannes  May 26, 2009
    Gainsbourg delivers a terrifying performance as a psychotic woman torturing her husband (Willem Dafoe) and mutilating herself during a trip to the woods intended as a healing sojourn after the death of their child. Waltz earned the best-actor award for his gleefully homicidal role as Nazi Col. Hans Landa, renowned in Germany as an ace "Jew hunter" in "Inglourious Basterds," Tarantino's rewrite of the history books that follows the exploits of a band of Jewish Allied commandos led by Brad Pitt. (MSNBC -- News)

    Haneke's The White Ribbon Tops Cannes  May 25, 2009
    " "This is one moment in my life in which I'm very happy, and so are you, I believe," said Haneke, who received the festival's Palme d'Or for his gorgeously photographed black-and-white tale. "The White Ribbon" examines themes of communal guilt, distrust and punishment among residents of a small German town besieged by tragedies and strange occurrences as World War I approaches. The second-place grand prize went to French director Jacques Audiard's prison drama "A Prophet," about an illiterate... (Time.com)

    Cannes crowds await jury's pick for best of fest  May 25, 2009
    Other past winners in the running were Ken Loach, who won in 2006 with "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" and directed one of this festival's most popular entries, the soccer-themed comedy "Looking for Eric," featuring former football star Eric Cantona; and Lars von Trier, the 2000 winner for "Dancer in the Dark," whose domestic drama "Antichrist," with Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg acting out brutish scenes of torture and mutilation, was generally reviled by this year's audiences.... (Lompoc Record, CA)

    Danish 'Antichrist' provides Cannes' annual scandal  May 25, 2009
    "Antichrist" -- starring French actress Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe of the US -- has Dafoe play a psychotherapist who takes his wife to a log cabin retreat to help her overcome grief at their baby's death. But instead they descend into a crazed spiral of violence. (Yahoo! Asia News)

    Cannes lineup shows darker side of mothers' love  May 24, 2009
    That was the evening Lars von Trier unveiled "Antichrist," in which Charlotte Gainsbourg goes to town on herself and Willem Dafoe. Her break with sanity begins not long after her infant climbs out of a window and falls to his death. (Boston Globe)

    IFC acquires von Trier's, Loach's Cannes entries  May 22, 2009
    French actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, second from left, and her husband French actor Yvan Attal, left, Danish director Lars Von Trier, third from left, American actor Willem Dafoe, third from right, his wife Italian actress Giada Colagrande, second from right, and Danish producer Meta Louise Foldager, right, arrive on the red carpet for the screening of the film 'Antichrist', during the 62nd International film festival in Cannes, southern France, Monday, May 18, 2009 ... IFC Films says it has... (Hanford Sentinal, CA)

    Cannes' biggest shocker!  May 21, 2009
    Willem Dafoe and France's Charlotte Gainsbourg deliver powerful performances in the movie as a couple who retreat to the woods to try to overcome grief at the death of their baby son. It opens with a slow-motion close-up of sexual penetration, veers into a dramatic escalation of violence, and climaxes with an excruciating shot of Gainsbourg slicing off her clitoris with a pair of scissors. (iAfrica.com)

    DVDs you should have seen, but didn't  May 21, 2009
    Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg in "Antichrist.". Ah, After a rainy weekend, the sun came out over the Boulevard de la Croisette. (Salon)

    LIVE FROM ... BLOG  May 21, 2009
    Lars Von Trier's psychosexual hellzapoppin Antichrist, starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a mourning couple who go on a nightmarish trip to the woods that culminates in mutilation and lust, just got picked up for distribution by IFC Films ... Antichrist stars Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a couple that retreats to a secluded forest cabin after the death of their child and find that nature is turning monstrous on them. (USA Today -- Life)

    Lars stares down Cannes critics  May 20, 2009
    " The Telegraph, meanwhile, said it was "cinema at its most extreme and mind-boggling" - a film that "looks brilliant", with "brave and truthful" performances. 'Hand of God'Largely set in a cabin in the woods, Antichrist shows a married couple - played by Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg - recovering from the trauma of losing a child. The film tells of a married couple recovering from the death of a child What follows involves sex, violence, an eviscerated talking fox and a climactic scene... (BBC News -- Entertainment)

    Infotainment  May 20, 2009
    US actor Willem Dafoe said his role in the Danish thriller Antichrist, which caused a scandal at its Cannes premiere, was one of the most challenging of his career. Dafoe plays opposite Charlotte Gainsbourg in Lars Von Triers film about love and madness, littered with graphic close-ups of sex and. (Daily Times, Pakistan)

    Festival crowd goes ooh, ahh, Cantona  May 20, 2009
    Starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg, the film is unflinchingly graphic in its depiction of sex, genital mutilation and torture. Guardian News & Media. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)

    Danish shocker at Cannes  May 19, 2009
    Actor Willem Dafoe, director Lars Von Trier and actress Charlotte Gainsbourg pose during the photocall of their movie 'Antichrist' at the Cannes Film Festival ... Featuring powerful performances from Willem Dafoe and France's Charlotte Gainsbourg, the film tells the story of a couple grappling to overcome the death of their baby son ... Actor Willem Dafoe, director Lars Von Trier and actress Charlotte Gainsbourg pose during the photocall of their movie 'Antichrist' at the Cannes Film Festival. (Sydney Morning Herald)

    Lars von Trier divides audiences with 'Antichrist'  May 19, 2009
    "Some viewers may disagree with that typical piece of von Trier bravado. "Antichrist" drew gasps, titters, applause and boos at its first Cannes Film Festival screening.The opening question at the subsequent press conference was an angry demand that von Trier justify having made the film, about a couple (Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) who retreat to their woodland cabin to heal after the death of their child. Out in the wilderness, malevolent nature _ animal, vegetable and most of all... (Hanford Sentinal, CA)

    Cannes: Lars von Trier and Jane Campion ... they're ba-a-ack!  May 19, 2009
    Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg in "Antichrist." ... Lars von Trier's comeback vehicle "Antichrist," starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a couple who delve into some unsavory sexual and/or sadomasochistic practices after the death of their son, seems like the first scandalous offering, and hence the first real vehicle for buzz, at Cannes this year. (Salon)

    Après le scandale, good surprises  May 19, 2009
    The Danish director had taken his vim pills and was having none of it: "I don't need to justify myself," he said, flanked by his two stars, Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg. "I work for myself, and I do this little film, that I'm now quite fond of. Internet Links "I didn't do it for you or for an audience. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)

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